"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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And it takes about 20% more time to do the wiring on a NEW airplane or a
COMPLETE REBUILD on an old one to get the good old aviation white wire
insulation and down to Staples for 9 marking pens; black, brown, red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and gray. (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, and 9) Assign each wire in the aircraft a number in accordance with a
little thought about what the numbers really mean. With three digits you
can have about 800 wires, with four digits 8000. Above that, you are
making a 747.

Each wire starts off with a double stripe of the lead digit. Then one
stripe on the insulation for the second digit, and so on. FOr example,
wire #234 would start off with two thin red stripes around the
circumference of one end of the wire, then a single orange stripe, then a
yellow stripe. THen a CLEAR shrink sleeve around the whole "number".
Repeat at the far end.

Or, get yourself some colored shrink and do the whole job with about half
the time. Same drill, but this time the first digit is twice as wide as
the rest of them.

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


I really like this idea, especially the colored heat shrink version which
works just as well with Telfon and Tefzel which did not acept stamped
numbers very well--even when I had a stamping machine available.

The marking pen is most usefull on Mil-W-5086 and the older (PVC) version of
Mil-W-16878; and should also be kept away from sunlight; but the colored
shrink tube "rocks"!

Peter